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Cargando... All Over But the Shoutin' (edición 2012)por Rick Bragg (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Certainly not a book that falls close to what I prefer reading, but what can I say, I was desperately bored one weekend and HAD to read. I'm glad that I did. Rick's tale was interesting and powerful in its own right. I think that I can say that I learned a lot about the South by being invited to join this talented man's childhood (if you can call it that). Rick Bragg needs you to understand three things about his life: One, he grew up with a strong mother. Two, his family was poorer than dirt. I don't know what's more poor than dirt, but Bragg will never let you forget he grew up less than dirt with words like white trash, ragged, welfare, slums, poverty, raggedy, and did I mention poor? Three, he's southern to the core, despite moving to New York City. Maybe it's this last point that makes it okay for him to use words like Eskimo. To be fair, we are a society becoming more and more sensitive to slights, real and perceived. But, I digress. Bragg travels the world seeing atrocities far worse than growing up in poverty or having a delinquent dad or a drug-addled brother. His ability to tell stories from a compassionate point of view draws a great deal of attention and eventually, fame. It is funny how when we are on the cusp of carrying on traditions from childhood we say we will do things differently than our parents. "I will not be my father. I will not be my mother." Yet, at the same time we are just like them without trying. Bragg spent a lifetime trying not to be his father, but at the end of All Over But the Shoutin' he is compelled to write his long-gone father a few words. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In a critically acclaimed memoir, a correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hill country, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from the poverty and ignorance of life.
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most. But at the center of this soaring memoir is Bragg's mother, who went eighteen years without a new dress so that her sons could have school clothes and picked other people's cotton so that her children wouldn't have to live on welfare alone. Evoking these lives--and the country that shaped and nourished them--with artistry, honesty, and compassion, Rick Bragg brings home the love and suffering that lie at the heart of every family. The result is unforgettable. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I loved this book, and I don’t say that very often. In the last eight years since I retired from high school English teaching, I’ve read 435 books, and Rick Bragg’s “All Over But the Shoutin’” is right at the top of that list. My fantasy at the ripe old age of 74 is for Rick to read this review on Amazon, Google me to find my phone number, and call me to thank me for writing it. That would be a little like how he felt when he bought his mamma that house. ( )